Handbrake is not signed, but they are interested in having it signed in the future.
The challenge is they are neither an organisation or an individual developer. To be recognised as a legitimate organisation you need a DUNS and go through the required paper work. This leaves them with the individual developer approach, which would probably require a trusted person, part of the inner team that would sign on behalf of the team. There are risks of course, but not many good alternatives.
I am wondering whether in the future the FSF could act as the necessary 'organisation', but then it is trying to work out the paper work, how to avoid abuse and what the cost would be. Yet another alternative would be for Apple to suggest a workable alternative. Maybe a notion of a team certificate, but with extra background checks? I am sure there are other good ideas out there.
I am fully aware, though beyond the need to charge yet another device there is typically at least an $80 price difference between the wired and wireless equivalents.
Maybe it's due to the stupid need for a dongle to listen to music? I have an iPhone 7 and the need to have a dongle is nuts. I don't use Apple's earbuds since my ears aren't compatible. Maybe 2016 was the year of the dongle? Hopefully Apple comes to their senses in 2017?
There may be a few games, but when you see the price of games you are unlikely to spend well earned cash on them unless they're worth it.
The truth is first party Nintendo games are usually a big reason why people buy Nintendo consoles. If you enjoy or appreciate cartoons and anime then you'll be quite happy to accept the lack of realism in the offered games.
For the most part, multiplayer games for the two other consoles require your friends to have their own console.
I'll probably be getting a PS4 because it has a number of games that I want to play, but I may also get the Switch for the same room multiplayer games, which happen to not take themselves too seriously.
Some ISPs already provide anti-viruses to the customer for an extra fee, like mine does. The only catch it is only windows compatible. I got the feature removed since they were charging me for something I couldn't use.
As for detecting viruses in an encrypted transport layer, at the ISP, then good luck with that.
If this was government money or your open money you would want it spent wisely? Maybe this is the same sort of case? It could also be a question of not paying a license fee that is out of line with the rest if the industry?
I wouldn't say it is a lack of intelligence, but the challenge of defining acceptable ranges for data validation, without causing too many edge cases. The opposite is no validation and questionable data values.
Actually there are other industries that will not refund money if you fail to turn up, though usually they will refund you a percentage or keep the deposit.
At the same time, you accepted the terms when you bought the ticket. The forceable deboarding is not a set of terms anyone agrees to.
It may not be a United run flight, but by code sharing they should require to have their partner provide equivalent service. By having their name associated with a flight they share some of cost and responsibility for anything that could go wrong.
This is always the risk associated with subcontracting. As the entity subcontracting out, you should always accept that you image depends on whoever is getting the work done or it is time to find another partner.
Could the FAA step in and create regulation preventing an airline from ejecting an already cleared and boarded passenger, unless:
- volunteering for another flight, with compensation
- life threatening situation
Sure it comes down to the decision of the pilot, but there should be a culture of customer service and if the paying customer is getting shafted then there is a problem. It shouldn't matter that they are in 'cattle class'.
Clearly staff shouldn't have been treated as VIPs and the screw up happened because people had already been allowed to board.
I hope this passenger gets more than just a flight home as compensation, since the way he was abused should never been permitted. I am thinking of an all expenses trip to Hawaii?
BTW with the attitude of the current administration towards any form of regulation, I am not too optimistic that the FAA will do the right thing.
I wonder how much of this is from tech teams denying that IPv6 is coming and not doing the homework and proper security analysis? For example, I have observed tech teams who didn't want anything to do with IPv6 and then ended up having systems that were kinda talking IPv6, but under the radar. No IPv6 firewalls and not even specifically deactivating IPv6 link-local on devices.
Well considering:
- 49% of eligible Brits said 'no'
- Another portion indicated they didn't really want to exit, and was using this as a protest vote
- Brits outside of the UK for more than 15 years weren't allowed to vote
- The younger portion of the population generally voted to stay (ref)
- Financial institutions may move their HQs, with some having started (ref)
- Airlines such as Easyjet will need to move their HQs to benefit from the European continent (ref)
- This may be the trigger for Scotland to have another referendum (ref)
With the above I am wondering who will really be happy? Maybe those who were living in a bubble and reading tabloids? I am not saying the EU doesn't need some fixing, but being a non-team player may really hurt.
You're right it didn't start with Trump, but he definitely has become the flag bearer for everything that seems wrong with the GOP and US politics in general.
NASA unfortunately is the toy for the ambitions of many senators. Either they get tasked with missions that are overly ambitious or get critisiced for missions that were dictated by the same unrealistic ambitions of politicians.
What type of attack is being mitigated against and how does the risk of failure of the encryption solution compare to that of the attack vector? There are many ways encryption can fail, including loss of keys or too much exposure to the passwords for these keys.
For example, are we talking about hardware theft or software based intrusion?
For hardware theft, then you would probably want to find a solution where no one needs to know the keys, but it is part of the local infrastructure. This would mean that once hardware is taken out of said infrastructure then it can't access the keys it needs to make sense of the data. Just like anything there are still scenarios where this could fail or be a hinderance.
For software there are so many variables and use cases, I am not going to try to list them, but remember there are both internal vectors of attack and external vectors of attack. Sometimes the hardest one to defend against is social engineering.
If a patent or copyright makes a reasonable profit during it's term, the intent of those exclusive rights is met. Beyond that, locking up IP impedes progress, since others can't freely build on the original. Disney built their business using the works of the bros. Grimm, Hans Christian Anderson, Mark Twain, Lewis Carroll, Kipling, etc., but now work diligently to steal our culture from us by preventing newcomers from doing similar.
In the world of software I would argue that patents impede more than they help promote innovation. Many of the motivations for developing software aren't because there is a promise of a patent or monopoly, since if it were we wouldn't have the huge number of open source solutions. If a company hasn't capitalized on a software 'invention' within a couple of years, then there is a good chance someone will come up with and equivalent solution, without evening needing to see how the 'original' works and in a number of cases we even see evidence of parallel creation.
It has been argued that copyright is more valuable to software than patents.
People need to complain and stop this nonsense. Patents and copyrights should expire at 20 years max. Maybe less. This stifles creativity and productivity, and has nothing to do with the original intent of protecting inventors and writers. It has to stop.
If an idea can be conceived in an hour and implemented in a under a month, then 20 years is far in excess of anything reasonable. This is part of the problem with software patents: many of the patents can be designed and implemented in less than a month. Contrast that to hardware, where the cycle can often closer to a year, or more, and many hundreds of thousands of dollars are spent, so an extended protection makes some sense to recoup R&D costs.
We all know how well this type of vision has worked for Google and Microsoft. Unless you have a healthy market of third-party manufacturers you may well end up needing to go your own way.
I think this may be a case of Apple rushing things. The MacBook Pro feels the same, where they could have left one legacy port as a compromise?
Wasn't Java open source at some point? And besides why is anybody using it now? (Here's looking at you Libre/OpenOffice) Rewrite Android in C, or better, Assembly, and the problem is solved.
OpenJDK (Open Java Development Kit) is a free and open source implementation of the Java Platform, Standard Edition (Java SE).[1] It is the result of an effort Sun Microsystems began in 2006. The implementation is licensed under the GNU General Public License (GNU GPL) version 2 with a linking exception. Were it not for the GPL linking exception, components that linked to the Java class library would be subject to the terms of the GPL license. OpenJDK is the official reference implementation of Java SE since version 7
My cynical side feels whatever the reality is, this is Oracle and well lets just say that I haven't ever felt Oracle to be a community player, unless that involves providing consults at cost.
I am looking forward to Vancouver, Toronto and Montreal becoming the new North American travel hubs. Of course flying around the USA will be a bit of a challenge.
I don't know if there is such a thing as 'data extradition', but surely working with Ireland would be the best approach? Anything else should surely outside of the immediate jurisdiction of US law enforcement? Maybe Google should invesigate the flip question: would the US accept e-mails on a foreign national stored on a US server to be handed over without the necessary legal paper work?
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Handbrake is not signed, but they are interested in having it signed in the future.
The challenge is they are neither an organisation or an individual developer. To be recognised as a legitimate organisation you need a DUNS and go through the required paper work. This leaves them with the individual developer approach, which would probably require a trusted person, part of the inner team that would sign on behalf of the team. There are risks of course, but not many good alternatives.
I am wondering whether in the future the FSF could act as the necessary 'organisation', but then it is trying to work out the paper work, how to avoid abuse and what the cost would be. Yet another alternative would be for Apple to suggest a workable alternative. Maybe a notion of a team certificate, but with extra background checks? I am sure there are other good ideas out there.
I am fully aware, though beyond the need to charge yet another device there is typically at least an $80 price difference between the wired and wireless equivalents.
Maybe it's due to the stupid need for a dongle to listen to music? I have an iPhone 7 and the need to have a dongle is nuts. I don't use Apple's earbuds since my ears aren't compatible. Maybe 2016 was the year of the dongle? Hopefully Apple comes to their senses in 2017?
Yeah, by 2020 I'll expect no less than superluminal.
If it is not subspace, then I'll go back to my fantasy world.
There may be a few games, but when you see the price of games you are unlikely to spend well earned cash on them unless they're worth it.
The truth is first party Nintendo games are usually a big reason why people buy Nintendo consoles. If you enjoy or appreciate cartoons and anime then you'll be quite happy to accept the lack of realism in the offered games.
For the most part, multiplayer games for the two other consoles require your friends to have their own console.
I'll probably be getting a PS4 because it has a number of games that I want to play, but I may also get the Switch for the same room multiplayer games, which happen to not take themselves too seriously.
Some ISPs already provide anti-viruses to the customer for an extra fee, like mine does. The only catch it is only windows compatible. I got the feature removed since they were charging me for something I couldn't use.
As for detecting viruses in an encrypted transport layer, at the ISP, then good luck with that.
If this was government money or your open money you would want it spent wisely? Maybe this is the same sort of case? It could also be a question of not paying a license fee that is out of line with the rest if the industry?
I wouldn't say it is a lack of intelligence, but the challenge of defining acceptable ranges for data validation, without causing too many edge cases. The opposite is no validation and questionable data values.
Actually there are other industries that will not refund money if you fail to turn up, though usually they will refund you a percentage or keep the deposit.
At the same time, you accepted the terms when you bought the ticket. The forceable deboarding is not a set of terms anyone agrees to.
It may not be a United run flight, but by code sharing they should require to have their partner provide equivalent service. By having their name associated with a flight they share some of cost and responsibility for anything that could go wrong.
This is always the risk associated with subcontracting. As the entity subcontracting out, you should always accept that you image depends on whoever is getting the work done or it is time to find another partner.
Could the FAA step in and create regulation preventing an airline from ejecting an already cleared and boarded passenger, unless:
- volunteering for another flight, with compensation
- life threatening situation
Sure it comes down to the decision of the pilot, but there should be a culture of customer service and if the paying customer is getting shafted then there is a problem. It shouldn't matter that they are in 'cattle class'.
Clearly staff shouldn't have been treated as VIPs and the screw up happened because people had already been allowed to board.
I hope this passenger gets more than just a flight home as compensation, since the way he was abused should never been permitted. I am thinking of an all expenses trip to Hawaii?
BTW with the attitude of the current administration towards any form of regulation, I am not too optimistic that the FAA will do the right thing.
Uh, heck. Typing on a phone with auto-corrupt :(
Corrected English:
I wonder how much of this is from tech teams denying that IPv6 is coming and not doing the homework and proper security analysis? For example, I have observed tech teams who didn't want anything to do with IPv6 and then ended up having systems that were kinda talking IPv6, but under the radar. No IPv6 firewalls and not even specifically deactivating IPv6 link-local on devices.
I wonder how much of this is from win to denying that IPv6 is coming and not doing the homework and proper security analysis?
In the meantime the rich get richer and the poor seem to want the rich to become richer too!?
To be educated middle class and realising they are fucked by those who don't want an education and those who have too much money to care.
Well considering:
- 49% of eligible Brits said 'no'
- Another portion indicated they didn't really want to exit, and was using this as a protest vote
- Brits outside of the UK for more than 15 years weren't allowed to vote
- The younger portion of the population generally voted to stay (ref)
- Financial institutions may move their HQs, with some having started (ref)
- Airlines such as Easyjet will need to move their HQs to benefit from the European continent (ref)
- This may be the trigger for Scotland to have another referendum (ref)
With the above I am wondering who will really be happy? Maybe those who were living in a bubble and reading tabloids? I am not saying the EU doesn't need some fixing, but being a non-team player may really hurt.
You're right it didn't start with Trump, but he definitely has become the flag bearer for everything that seems wrong with the GOP and US politics in general.
NASA unfortunately is the toy for the ambitions of many senators. Either they get tasked with missions that are overly ambitious or get critisiced for missions that were dictated by the same unrealistic ambitions of politicians.
Unless they extradite Kim Dotcom
What type of attack is being mitigated against and how does the risk of failure of the encryption solution compare to that of the attack vector? There are many ways encryption can fail, including loss of keys or too much exposure to the passwords for these keys.
For example, are we talking about hardware theft or software based intrusion?
For hardware theft, then you would probably want to find a solution where no one needs to know the keys, but it is part of the local infrastructure. This would mean that once hardware is taken out of said infrastructure then it can't access the keys it needs to make sense of the data. Just like anything there are still scenarios where this could fail or be a hinderance.
For software there are so many variables and use cases, I am not going to try to list them, but remember there are both internal vectors of attack and external vectors of attack. Sometimes the hardest one to defend against is social engineering.
If a patent or copyright makes a reasonable profit during it's term, the intent of those exclusive rights is met. Beyond that, locking up IP impedes progress, since others can't freely build on the original. Disney built their business using the works of the bros. Grimm, Hans Christian Anderson, Mark Twain, Lewis Carroll, Kipling, etc., but now work diligently to steal our culture from us by preventing newcomers from doing similar.
In the world of software I would argue that patents impede more than they help promote innovation. Many of the motivations for developing software aren't because there is a promise of a patent or monopoly, since if it were we wouldn't have the huge number of open source solutions. If a company hasn't capitalized on a software 'invention' within a couple of years, then there is a good chance someone will come up with and equivalent solution, without evening needing to see how the 'original' works and in a number of cases we even see evidence of parallel creation.
It has been argued that copyright is more valuable to software than patents.
One interesting article on software patents is here: https://www.forbes.com/sites/e...
People need to complain and stop this nonsense. Patents and copyrights should expire at 20 years max. Maybe less. This stifles creativity and productivity, and has nothing to do with the original intent of protecting inventors and writers. It has to stop.
If an idea can be conceived in an hour and implemented in a under a month, then 20 years is far in excess of anything reasonable. This is part of the problem with software patents: many of the patents can be designed and implemented in less than a month. Contrast that to hardware, where the cycle can often closer to a year, or more, and many hundreds of thousands of dollars are spent, so an extended protection makes some sense to recoup R&D costs.
We all know how well this type of vision has worked for Google and Microsoft. Unless you have a healthy market of third-party manufacturers you may well end up needing to go your own way.
I think this may be a case of Apple rushing things. The MacBook Pro feels the same, where they could have left one legacy port as a compromise?
Wasn't Java open source at some point? And besides why is anybody using it now? (Here's looking at you Libre/OpenOffice) Rewrite Android in C, or better, Assembly, and the problem is solved.
Wikipedia's entry, has this to say as intro:
OpenJDK (Open Java Development Kit) is a free and open source implementation of the Java Platform, Standard Edition (Java SE).[1] It is the result of an effort Sun Microsystems began in 2006. The implementation is licensed under the GNU General Public License (GNU GPL) version 2 with a linking exception. Were it not for the GPL linking exception, components that linked to the Java class library would be subject to the terms of the GPL license. OpenJDK is the official reference implementation of Java SE since version 7
There is a post here on StackOverflow on this: http://stackoverflow.com/quest...
My cynical side feels whatever the reality is, this is Oracle and well lets just say that I haven't ever felt Oracle to be a community player, unless that involves providing consults at cost.
I am looking forward to Vancouver, Toronto and Montreal becoming the new North American travel hubs. Of course flying around the USA will be a bit of a challenge.
I don't know if there is such a thing as 'data extradition', but surely working with Ireland would be the best approach? Anything else should surely outside of the immediate jurisdiction of US law enforcement? Maybe Google should invesigate the flip question: would the US accept e-mails on a foreign national stored on a US server to be handed over without the necessary legal paper work?